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- What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821), 1802
- A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
- Cogito ergo spud. - I think, therefore I yam
- Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
- Thomas B. Reed
- Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
- St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
- How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
- Gioacchino Rosini
- Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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